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Ukraine: The War I Thought I Understood
Jon Rodebaugh runs a rubber hose plant in Ohio. In late 2019 he traveled to Kyiv, Dnipro and Lviv on a state-funded export trip, hired a translator for the week, and came home with his assumptions about Ukraine scrambled. Two years later his translator was living through an invasion, and Rodebaugh started trying to work out what he’d actually seen.
The result is a 12,000-word essay that moves from a bridge in Dnipro to NATO’s eastward expansion, the Minsk agreements, $174 billion in US appropriations and the GAO reports on how it was tracked, the death of an American citizen in Ukrainian…
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